a cat with brown or grey fur marked with dark lines or spots 斑猫（毛皮灰色或褐色，带有深色斑条或斑点） Oxford Collocations DictionaryTabby is used before these nouns:- cat
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured.